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furrowed rock crab

Romaleon branneri

Classification

Family
Cancridae

John Casper Branner (July 4, 1850 – March 1, 1922) was an American geologist and academic who discovered bauxite in Arkansas in 1887 as State Geologist for the Geological Survey of Arkansas. He was chair of the Departments of Botany and Geology at Indiana University Bloomington and later at Stanford University. He was a member of the founding faculty at Stanford and served as the university's second president.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 18Canada · 17